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@christianSpaceman
No worries - it completely didn't register that you already had a perfectly good template that you could use :)
A wood guard might be possible if it's something you really fancied, Ben Crowe's done it at least once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrTUgrI1Mi8
It might have to be thicker than you'd like though, here's a picture of an ebony headstock veneer (before surface sanding) I made, it only took a file and a knackered jigsaw and would probably get you close to a 'good enough' finish.
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